ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the nature of the service-learning modules using depth analysis. This analysis along with the discussion on the role of education determines that the research will focus on the knowledge, values and skills aspects of the modules. The information sources used in the research are student and key informant interviews and student grades. Students taking the module decide, in discussion with their lecturer, on the particular charity, school, organisation or community need to benefit from their project. Although other levels can have an impact on our enquiry, we use depth perspective as a heuristic device to help us conceptualise the community learning programme (CLP) to identify our case unit and its boundaries. This device allows us to clarify the elements of the CLP such as the physical, structural and patterns elements. In addition, it provides us with a framework for meaning, emotions, symbols and the overall phenomenon itself what we call the identity.
